TDF Stages Archive
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She Sacrificed All for the Theatre, and It Worked Out
Why Geneva Carr devoted the last four years of her life to Hand to God
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There Was More to Helen Keller Than You Know
A new play uses Keller’s own words to tell her story
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WATCH: Meet New Ohio Theatre
Meet New Ohio Theatre, where independent theatre companies always have a home. This video features New Ohio Artistic Director Robert Lyons, as well as artists from The Assembly , The Drunkard’s Wife, The Mad Ones, and Rady+Bloom Collective Playmaking.
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Where Did They Find That Vicious Little Girl?
Songwriters Performers Off-Broadway Inside the casting for Ruthless! The Musical — When Joel Paley and Marvin Laird, creators of Ruthless! The Musical , cast the show's original Off-Broadway production in 1992, they were keenly aware of a make-or-break factor. As Paley says, "We had to find a kid that was so talented it was scary." […]
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Diane Paulus Finds a New Way to Neverland
Broadway Directors Songwriters How the director changed her vision of Finding Neverland — When Tony Award-winning director Diane Paulus signed on to the mega-musicalization of the movie Finding Neverland , currently playing at Broadway's Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, she knew one of the biggest challenges would be figuring out how to conjure the title destination. A magical […]
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Creating a Crucial Moment in Awake and Sing!
Welcome to Building Character , our ongoing look at performers and how they create their roles
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You’ll Never Guess Where the Shipwreck Came From
Designers Broadway The surprising inspiration for Amazing Grace 's pivotal scene — Of all the musicals currently on Broadway, Amazing Grace seems the least likely to be influenced by experimental German theatre. Yet the Berliner Ensemble , the company co-founded by Bertolt Brecht, is the direct inspiration for one of the show's most memorable moments. […]
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What Does It Take to Stage a New Musical in New York?
Andrew Block is an Ovation Award-winning director who hails from New Orleans and now works primarily with the vibrant NYC independent theatre community. He also serves as TDF’s Partnerships and Off and Off-Off Broadway Services Manager.
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WATCH: What Is a Cue-to-Cue?
We’ve got a new video in our Theatre Dictionary ! (You can browse all our videos right here. )